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There Are 7 Possible Ways This New 'Gilligan's Island' Movie Could Go...

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They're making a Gilligan's Island movie. Josh Gad is in it. This is the news we find ourselves facing today.
Gilligan's Island purists (there's a purist for everything) are probably hollering over the news of Gad at the center of this production. "The Book of Mormon kid as Gilligan? That's conflicts with my purism!" But as of yet, we're not entirely sure who Gad is set to play. The assumption: Gilligan. The official word: TBA. So, really, there are seven possible ways this movie can go...
Josh Gad as GilliganThe most straightforward adaptation of the sitcom, with Gad playing the bumbling title character who consistently thwarts his friends' attempts at escaping the confines of their desert island prison. Sight gags, goofy repartee, wacky laughs, and a simplistic message about believing in yourself and the people you love. Maybe Gad's Gilligan has a romantic flight with hometown gal Mary Ann? That'd sell. We mean, foster artistic merit. Directed by Shawn Levy.
Also starringThe Skipper... Kevin JamesThe Millionaire... Jason BatemanHis Wife... Allison JanneyThe Movie Star... Sofia VergaraThe Professor... Jon Hamm (in glasses!)Mary Ann... Ellie Kemper
Josh Gad as The SkipperYou know, for kids! If Gad takes on the role of the Skipper, a maritime man who has quite a few years on the rest of the characters, we might be seeing something in the vein of a Disney Channel vacation flick. Gad and his nephew "Gil" operate an ocean excursion for privileged youths and wind up on a crazy island adventure! Gad must wrangle these preteens (and teach them a few lessons about growing up) in this family-friendly 90-minute TV movie (with commercials). Rally the the small nation of people that wrote and directed the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies.
Also starringGilligan... Rico RodriguezThe Millionaire... One of the Sprouse twins (maybe not the one with the naked pictures scandal, just to be safe)His "Wife"... iCarlyThe Movie Star... Somebody named ZendayaThe Professor... The kid from Iron Man 3Mary Ann... My cousin Kylee recommended Bridget Mendler, but, admittedly, Kylee doesn't know what Gilligan's Island is
Josh Gad as The Millionaire The quirky indie! We've seen a lot of stylistic liberties taken with old television programs and books, with an extra dose of contemporary eccentricity injected into properties like Dark Shadows or Fantastic Mr. Fox. Casting Gad as the (Internet) millionaire would kick off this new Gilligan with that dry, satirical flavor we find in so many offbeat indie flicks, rendering the entire island adventure a venue for deadpan non sequiturs and (quite appropriately) ukulele solos. Is Noah Baumbach available? No? Damn.
Also starringGilligan... Jason SchwartzmanThe Skipper... Mark Ruffalo (is he still doing this stuff, or is he all Hulk now?)His Wife... Charlyne YiThe Professor... Mark DuplassThe Movie Star... Zoe Kazan, or a Zoe Kazan equivalentMary Ann... Greta Gerwig, obviously
Josh Gad as His WifeThe broader-than-broad cross-dressing comedy! The kind of humor you find on the cutting room floor of Yogi Bear. If there's time to work in a plot between instances of human (and animal) flatulence, so be it. Overweight Gad playing the butt of every joke as Thurston Howell III's hilariously unattractive wife? That's not just comedy, it's America! Brett Ratner is already signed on for a three-picture deal.
Also starringGilligan, The Skipper, The Millionaire, The Movie Star, and The Professor... Eddie MurphyMary Ann... An actual woman that they rope in for some semblance of a romantic arc
Josh Gad as The Movie Star The classy Oscar candidate! Occasionally, a TV adaptation (i.e., The Fugitive) will reach far and beyond the constraints of its source material and actually churn out awards-caliber material. Casting Gad as a subversion of what we view as the epitome of traditional "celebrity" already lends itself to a more poignant and pensive Gilligan's Island than any of us might have anticipated. We're talking Sophia Coppola territory here. A drama that really says something about what it means for a septet of disparate humans to fend for themselves on a desert island.
Also starringGilligan... Michael B. JordanThe Skipper... Christian Bale (he'll gain the weight)The Millionaire... Jean DujardinHis Wife... Marion CotillardThe Professor... Sean Penn — is he still allowed to make movies?Mary Ann... Rooney Mara
Josh Gad as The Professor The sci-fi adventure! Gilligan's Island, less a few anthropomorphic monkeys and some liberties taken with coconut-based technology, was rooted in the laws of our universe. But you can say the same for Scooby Doo and The Brady Bunch, and they went on to face real monsters and impending asteroids in their film incarnations. Sometimes, the step toward the big screen warrants an inclusion of fantasy. Maybe the island isn't just uncharted, but cursed! Or the home of an undiscovered breed of monsters! Or a space-and-time-jumping beacon of electromagnetic energy that stands as an extended metaphor for the plight of the human soul! We can see the Bad Robot logo now...
His Costars:Gilligan... Dave FrancoThe Skipper... Dwayne JohnsonThe Millionaire... Idris Elba — now you're on boardHis Wife... Gina CaranoThe Movie Star... Zoe SaldanaMary Ann... Elizabeth Olsen
Josh Gad as Mary Ann Have you ever seen Head? The strange, cerebral, explosively meta deconstruction of the 1960s musical sitcom The Monkees? Well, we're thinking that the Gilligan's Island form would slink perfectly into these margins. It's surreal, it's ripe for analysis, it even has been suggested to represent the Seven Deadly Sins with each of its characters. Gad's casting as Mary Ann already raises an eyebrow, but a progressive and artful director might well give us something worthy of some deep dives. Charlie Kaufman, make Gilligan's Island about US.
His Costars:Gilligan... Jared LetoThe Skipper... Meat LoafThe Millionaire... Denis LavantHis Wife... Catherine KeenerThe Movie Star... Chloe SevignyThe Professor... Joaquin Phoenix
So which version are you rooting for?
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It's hard to blame Judd Apatow for being ambitious.
In a big screen genre known for pandering to the lowest common denominator the producer of the great Bridesmaids and Superbad has taken his directorial opportunities to challenge viewers with comedy. His stories are homegrown and heartfelt tackling life with a baby in Knocked Up and the definition of success in Funny People. That pair paved the way for This Is 40 a film that feels even more like an adaptation of Apatow's secret journal. He seemingly crams every idea he's got about aging parenting and nurturing a family into the movie spinning his musings into script form for frequent collaborator Paul Rudd and actual wife Leslie Mann to bring to life. Apatow evokes plenty of laughter with This Is 40's wry and honest insight unfortunately diluted by a girth of material. Energetic and sharp in the beginning but as time passes the shtick gets old.
Bumped up from supporting characters to full-fledged leads Rudd and Mann evolve their Knocked Up characters Pete and Debbie into 40-year-old parents pretending to have everything figured out. They even have themselves convinced Pete certain that his investment in the first Graham Parker &amp; the Rumour album since 1980 will spark Debbie chasing her own business prospects while basking in her modern nuclear family. But it's far from perfect with Pete and Debbie's relationship maxing out their kids coveting Lost more than the company of each other and their dads — Pete's a money-grubber (played by Albert Brooks) and Debbie's an estranged man living another life (John Lithgow) — only turning up the heat on the boiler. The bubble quickly pops for the couple who spend most of This Is 40 wrestling with life and bickering their way in and out of situations.
There is a lot of funny stuffed into This Is 40: Lena Dunham and Chris O'Dowd jump in on the riffing as Pete's record label employees Jason Segel returns as a personal trainer and Megan Fox and Charlyne Yi play Debbie's clothing store employees. Each actor has a distinct voice to add to This Is 40's mosaic of setups. Individual bits stand out as some of the funniest of the year. They also divert attention from the ups and downs of the main duo — O'Dowd and Segel's pursuit of Fox at a party the actresses knowing full well she's the best looking woman in the room is great fun. Yi brings down the house with an extended defense of her drug habits (her rambling turns "Oxycontin" into "Oxykitten " and it's brilliant). But the laughs are fleeting. This Is 40 is supposed to be Pete and Debbie's story but it drowns with excess like two seasons of television crammed into two hours.
Thankfully Rudd and Mann are as charming as any comedically inclined performers today. Alongside them are Apatow's own children Maude and Iris Apatow who play the couple's kids. But Pete and Debbie's tendency to throw up their arms in frustration as opposed to confronting their issues is infuriating. Apatow finds truth in the meandering conclusions of the duo's fights but it doesn't make for a great movie. Rudd and Mann at least make it relatable and palatable even when Pete is inspecting his nether regions for hemorrhoids or Debbie is running off to a club with her young employees to briefly flee her marriage. Brooks is the real standout of This Is 40; his lovable schmuck is biting and essential to the main story. Heck there's enough going on in Brooks and Rudd's relationship they could have had a movie all their own (and maybe they will considering This Is 40 is a "semi-sequel").
This Is 40 takes a risk on free form storytelling falling short with parts that are greater than the whole. Apatow is a master of telling stories that infuse raunchy comedy and thoughtful drama. With his fourth feature he decides to tell too many of those stories at once. It doesn't work but again it's hard to blame him for being ambitious.

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What Charlyne Yi does is beyond performance. She's the lively, emotionality-addicted spirit of Andy Kaufman reconstituted into an undeniably lovable, excruciatingly discomforting twenty-five year-old young actress/comedian/musician. Both in scripted roles and during talk show interviews, Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up, Paper Heart) is always working in some way to make the audiences feel something... from overwhelming joy to, often, drastic uneasiness. And it's all brilliant. And now, she's bringing her talents to a show where a shakeup of the status quo should be quite welcome: House.
House is known for being formulaic; Charlyne Yi is known for being anything but. When combined, the result is unpredictable. But it's likely that Yi, as a new doctor working under Greg House, will stir the pot and toss a new challenge towards Hugh Laurie's unflappable hero.
I think putting Charlyne Yi into brief roles should become a television staple. Rather, a television regiment. Charlyne Yi should show up in scenes of How I Met Your Mother, The Bachelorette, Cake Boss, Yo Gabba Gabba, and 60 Minutes. The status quo must be disturbed. Long live Charlyne Yi.
Source: TVLine

Judd Apatow's Knocked Up spinoff (rumored to be titled This is Forty, though no one knows for sure) will follow Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters from the original film, but other familiar faces from the Apatow-verse will be making appearances as well.
First up are Chris O’Dowd and Lena Dunham. O’Dowd rocked it as a lovable cop in Bridesmaids and Dunham destroyed it in Tiny Furniture which she wrote and directed. She’s also writing, directing and starring in the HBO series Girls with Apatow producing. Those two will play employees of Rudd’s indie record label. Next, we have Wyatt Russell, song of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, who will play a hockey player (a hockey element -- interesting!). And finally, Charlyne Yi, who played Martin Starr’s stoner girlfriend in Knocked Up, will reprise the role for the spin-off.
Sweetness! Not that I ever doubted Apatow’s next directing gig, but this is just icing on the cake. Sweet, delicious, boner joking icing. Delicious.
Source: /Film
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Conan and his writers with their ruined cars were counting on us to vote in his poll to decide who the first guests on his show would be, but it looks like that was just another ploy to get Tom from Myspace's hopes up unnecessarily high because his first guests have been announced, and none of them were listed on the poll. Monday's show will kick off with Seth Rogen and musical guest Jack White. Tuesday's show will have Tom Hanks, Jack McBrayer from 30 Rock and Soundgarden. Wednesday's show will have Jon Hamm and Charlyne Yi with a performance by Fistful of Mercy, and Thursday's show will have Michael Cera and Julie Bowen and comedian Jon Dore.
Nice lineup. But more importantly, does this remind anyone else of Space Jam? Obviously Michael Jordan was was the one who saved the Looney Toons from an eternity at Moron Mountain by helping them win a basketball game. But if Michael Jordan had needed their assistance in whatever, Bugs Bunny and Co. would have returned to show their appreciation by helping him however they could. And this is just like that! Conan is Michael Jordan, and after years of helping Rogen and Hamm and the like promote their projects and ensure they are received successfully, they're all coming back to make sure the baseball community gives him a chance! Wait, no. They're all coming back to make sure we give Conan another chance! But it's really not us they have to worry about -- it's Jay Leno, who has never seen nor heard of Space Jam, which makes him angry he's on the outs of this analogy and already calf-deep in planning a way to turn TBS into another car doesn't drive.
Source: Deadline

The long awaited, much anticipated Downers Grove was released yesterday on theWB.com (watch episodes here). The web series is the first comedy produced by Warner Brothers’ Studio 2.0 since the insanely funny Children’s Hospital starring Rob Corddry – which is now being developed into television series, set to launch on Adult Swim in August. Downers Grove proves that for all of its teenybopper fare, the WB deserves our respect when it comes to their comedy lineup.
The humor in Downers Grove is sad, funny, and weird (in a good way). It’s reminiscent of Freaks and Geeks – full of rich, relatable characters that make you laugh and cringe at the same time. Set in the suburbs of Chicago (we checked – Downers Grove, IL is in fact a real town), the show follows four slackers in their mid 20s who never left home. The four creators/stars – Dave Horwitz, Michael Blaiklock, Justin Becker, and Elisha Yaffe (Sorry, Dad Productions) were smart enough to surround themselves with a few seasoned comedy veterans – pulled from the cast of HBO’s Mr. Show and Funny or Die. This isn’t to say they don’t hold their own. Each young star stands out on camera, crafting a funny character that we can root for, even if we’d never hang out with them in real life.
Have a look at Downers Grove below. And watch more episodes here:
The first five episodes of season one are now live on theWB.com, with the final four episodes going live next Tuesday, June 22nd. Here are 8 reasons why we hope to see a second season:
1. Townies Brought to Life on Screen: It’s about time we saw an alternate reality on television – one that’s more realistic than yet another The OC - style “rich people have problems too!” type of show. Most of America – like it or not – is made up of strip malls and chain restaurants. Most of America isn’t pretty. But it is funny - a fact that the creators of Downers Grove take full advantage of.
2. Hilarious Up and Comers: We promise this will be the last Freaks and Geeks reference. It’s always exciting to see a young group of performers gel so well. The hipster “Alden” (Horwitz), the Goth “Jodi” (Becker), the heartbroken “Brett” (Blaiklock), the hippie/stoner/semi-retarded “Pudge” (Yaffe), the sexy/creepy “Maybe Ellen” (Gregory), and the heartbreaker “Becca” (Heaslet) round out a cast of memorable townies that would fit neatly into any suburban memory.
3. Mr. Show's John Ennis: Aside from Bob and David, Ennis was our favorite cast member on what is now considered to be one of the top three sketch shows of all time. In Downers Grove he plays the soon-to-be-remarried father of “Brett”. We haven’t seen Ennis’ episodes (they will be released next Tuesday, June 22nd) – but the little bits and pieces we’ve heard about (Ennis’ character throws an new agey, Indian-inspired wedding) sound hilarious.
4. A Strong Female Cast: “Maybe Ellen” may be the funniest / weirdest female character we’ve seen in a while. In the first episode, the character (played by UCB LA regular Anne Gregory), hits on Horwitz’s “Alden” in an oddly intimidating way – to hilarious effect. The world of Downers also features Brett's on again/off again girlfriend “Becca”. Actress Heidi Heaslet plays the role with a sincerity that is instantly endearing. Alden’s sister and her friends, as well as two punk teenage girls who mock the guys’ every move. All in all, Downers features something that many modern day comedies don’t: a strong female cast that is sexy, smart, and most importantly – funny.
5. Kyle Kinane: This guy is going to be HUGE. Kinane is a much buzzed about Los Angeles comedian who recently went on tour with a little man named Patton Oswalt. Asylum interviewed him back in March about his stand up album Death at a Party – which is hilarious by the way. In Downers Grove he proves he can act as well, playing the hilarious Officer Quinn in the episode “Flowers for Pudge”.
6. Passion Pit Theme Song: Here’s a bit of trivia – according to NewTeeVee, the creators of Downers Grove are old friends with Michael Angelokas, lead singer of the band Passion Pit and asked him to make the theme song for Downers Grove. The result is a catchy, poppy tune in the vein of the band’s breakout hit “Sleepyhead” and one of the best theme songs we’ve heard in a while.
7. Charlyne Yi and Paul Rust's "Hawaii": Charlyne Yi (Paper Heart) and Paul Rust (I Love You Beth Cooper) are known for their comedy, but their addition to the already standout soundtrack shows that they are multi-talented. “Hawaii”- featured at the end of episode two - is a cute, poppy song that will stick with you for a while.
8. Drunk History's Derek Waters: Derek Waters of “Drunk History” fame is set to play a pissy convenience store clerk in the batch of episodes to be released next Tuesday, June 22nd. If “Drunk History” is any indication, this guy’s brain is a comedic goldmine. We can’t wait to see what he does with the role.
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A U.S. tabloid last month (Jul09) alleged Year One star Cera had pulled the plug on their relationship so he could make the most of his newfound fame and date other girls.
Yi appeared to back up the reports during an appearance on the Tonight Show last week (03Aug09) when she performed a break up song, telling the audience, "It's kind of a sad song about my boyfriend breaking up with me. What can you do about it? Write a song about it... and try to win him back.
But in a new interview with Moviefone, Yi claims the pair have never been an item.
She says, "We weren't dating at the time... or ever.".

"I was thinking, 'I've never been high before, should I tell him that? No, be cool.' And I think I stopped being nervous. My voice got lower somehow. For some reason they thought I was high." Comedic actress CHARLYNE YI is still confused about how she managed to play a convincing pot-smoker in 2007 film KNOCKED UP - because she's never smoked marijuana.

Yi is still recovering after her actor beau of three years dumped her last month (Jul09), and took the opportunity to open up about their split on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on Monday night (03Aug09).
The Knocked Up star introduced a tune on her electric guitar, telling the audience: "It's kind of a sad song about my boyfriend breaking up with me. What can you do about it? Write a song about it... and try to win him back.
But Yi, who did not mention Cera by name, was quick to get a belly-laugh from from viewers after her heartbroken opening.
Pointing to an anonymous man in the crowd, she added: "This is for you. Oh yeah, I didn't write any words because the truth is, no words could express for how much I miss you.".